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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They took the pepe frogs for a while too, but I've been seeing them come back. Nature is healing.

[–] Enkers 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuckkkk thatttt, pepe is still alive and well on twitch, and racists are not tolerated (at least in any of the channels I frequent). They can pry that frog from my cold, dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Based.

But seriously the guy who drew that frog was just a cartoonist and he was appalled that it became a hate symbol. I hope he sees it redeemed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't he kill that character off for that very reason?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm glad people are reclaiming him finally. He was never a racist symbol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. I'm old and have been on the internet since well before the creation of both Pepe and based. That's why I still use this term. I think we should try to reclaim these things - if we let them change our behavior, we lose.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No one can take the pepe frogs from us